PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE FOR MARCH 2025
CQ, CQ, CQ CALLING ALL HAMS…………..
Luck of the Irish to you in the month of March!!
May the wind be at your back and the sun on your path as you travel through your lives.
I hope that this note finds everyone doing well and what they want to do. The GCARA club is healthy and growing at a continual pace. Our testing program will be stepped up and we will offer testees twelve months free membership in our club so they can get a taste of what we offer them. There are so many wonderful clubs around, each offering a different HAM flavor.
Our club offers interpersonal relationships with mentors, and we serve to point to areas of interest that may be savored by the hobbyist. We engage in education, service opportunities to the community and we practice in the ARRL Field Day in June and WFD in January. We love to maintain the original practices of our predecessors. There is little more rewarding in life than to pave the way for someone’s edification, education and proficiency in a chosen hobby or field. We strive to keep our eyes looking forward while remembering how we got here. Welcome everyone to our vastly unique community of hams.
This month we had our March 29, 2025 Spring Picnic at Vista View park in Davie. We featured RICKI’S Chili and Dogs with our show and tell this picnic to rave reviews.
There were 22 attendees and a lot of gabbing between everyone as they examined Kenny’s Russian radios and other equipment, he is so often able to bring. Ben Echavarria N7BBE brought his go kit to the delight of a youngster in attendance. It was so neat to see the child twirl the knobs through the frequencies and being fascinated by hearing conversation at some spots. We think we may have a ham in training soon.
Our March meeting was absolutely fascinating and we will have speaker Patrick Bolan, owner of Geochron back early next year to show the further development of his Ham Package for the Geochron clock. He has the manual version, and a digital one now and will be enhancing the programs you can run on the clock. There are so many options one can choose from, whether the weather or maritime shipping or aircraft fights or satellites positions etc. There are interactive features which make this item worth obtaining.
We auctioned off a Geochron device worth $450.00 to our attendees and Marty Falk’s wife, Edna, bought it for her husband. Now, they can be tuned in to many different programs on their HD Smart TV. Patrick is offering the kit at a show special of $75.00 off the kit for members of GCARA. The talk was well worth it.
